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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Damon Wilkinson

"It's bl**dy frustrating": 'Forgotten' village where 'you can't open the windows'

Dorothy Turton gestures towards the front window of the shop that's been in her family for three generations. "I've had triple glazing put in, but you can still hear the noise," she says.

A few feet away a constant stream of cars and HGVs thunder through the village of Hollingworth on the one of the busiest and most controversial roads in Greater Manchester. If everything had gone to plan, work on the long-awaited Mottram Bypass should have begun by now.

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